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03 Aug 2015 8:14:07am

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The Process that is True Religion is the product of the inherent total psycho-physical urge to the evolutionary fulfillment and ultimate self-transcendence of Man in the Radiant Reality, or Life-Principle, in which he and the world are arising. Religion is not a matter of belief in the presumed "evidence" or "results" of religious activity on the part of a certain few historical individuals. Religion is not exclusively a matter of "revelation" in the sense of the specific historical communcations made by rare and prophetic individuals. Rather True Religion is the PROCESS itself - the evolutionary and self-transcending process of the psycho-biological transformation of Man.

The Process of True Religion is inherent in the psycho-biological structures of every human being, except that it is only more or less developed in each individual. But the development of those structures depends upon cultural adaptation. That is it must be cultivated by a process of real initiation, a living culture of expectation and demand. Such a culture of Real initiation does not exist in the Western world, or is at least extremely rare.

The problem is that religion is not commonly understood as a native psycho-biological function in Man. It is instead associated with merely symbolic cosmologies and archaic belief systems. In that case true religious acculturation is suppressed and obliged to remain at an infantile level. What is more, the adolescent movement of scientism is gradually, and also rightly, destroying the credibility of such childish religious culture.

The phenomenon popularly known as religion is a childish, even infantile, expression of our possible higher acculturation and evolution. It is always associated with childish cultism, symbolic rituals, and irrational belief systems than never be penetrated to the point of establishing the true and universal religious Process.

Religious cults are nearly always antagonistic to one another. Each claiming some kind of righteous superiority for its presumed special historical "revelation" - Christian-ism and Islam-ism specialize in this tactic. The level or participation in the limited cultures of such cults is mostly a matter of uninspected beliefs, external rituals, and superficial codes of social conduct. There is nothing morally, humanly, or spiritually superior about such "religious" consciousness.